kind of negotiation. we are supporting ukraine, as it fights right now to defend itself. how important are the new advanced weapons that president biden has approved sending to ukraine? i think for those of us who don t come from about a military background, we hear about anti tank weapons, we hear about artillery and howitzers. we are now hearing about guided rocket systems. as the type of weapons, and the amount of weaponry that the united states sends continues to expand, is there something that we civilians should understand in terms of the enhanced capability that we are offering the ukrainians by giving them these more advanced weapons that are newly arriving now? well, they are very important, and it really signifies, i, think our support,
tank weapons, we hear about artillery and howitzers. we are now hearing about guided rocket systems. as the type of weapons, and the amount of weaponry that the united states sends continues to expand, is there something that we civilians should understand in terms of the enhanced capability that we are offering the cranes by giving them these more advanced weapons that are new leo arriving now? well, they are very important, and it really signifies, i, think our support, because they are advanced weaponry. they also signify the way the battle has changed from what was required in kyiv, in the capital, when there was fighting in urban areas. where now it s fighting in the donbas, which is the area in the east, and this very flat. so the fighting is basically artillery, and it s from far
you have to have that and ukrainians have shown a much greater ability in that regard than the russians have so far. they are fighting in many ways. professor, it sounds to me like you re saying that ukrainians will have the advantage in eastern ukraine and they will be able to fight off the russians? is that your sense? but also to say is there is one source of uncertainty which is ukrainians coordinating all of the arms as well and so far, but it ll do is defend against russians in small unit engagements where they ll have some infantry soldiers and tank weapons in small groups of casualties on the russians.
where people were assuming that we knew what the russians could do and what the cranium s could do. we were proven wrong on both. i think there is some interesting signs of what the ukrainians what s the pentagon believes the ukrainians can do. they are absolutely flooding ukraine with anti tank rape and rape. he gave a top earlier today where there were ten untie tank weapons in ukraine for every russian tank. and if so, that is a very high ratio. it puts ukraine in a very good position. another interesting report that came out which was i think off the record, but it is probably quite trustworthy is that ukrainian soldiers are now in the united states training to use switchblade drones. so they are trying to be trained on and what assumes their ability to operate uav s has been very high in drones. but they are going to be given,
using? which supplies are too complex for them to use. there seems to be a gap in what s ukraine asks for and what the pentagon thinks that they are actually capable of operating there. well at least now we do have five weeks of real world experience to give us some idea of how the battlefield operates in ukraine. it is unlike before the war where people were assuming that we knew what the russians could do and what the cranium s could do. we were proven wrong on both. i think there is some interesting signs of what the ukrainians what s the pentagon believes the ukrainians can do. they are absolutely flooding he gave a top earlier today where there were ten untie tank weapons in ukraine for every russian tank. and if so, that is a very high ratio. it puts ukraine in a very good position. another interesting report that came